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Originally Posted by Brigand
How do you know there is a manual car driver in the bar?
He tells you  |
Hey, hey, c'mon now
Somewhat funny but not (always) true of course.
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Originally Posted by Brigand
I actually don't know anyone that can only drive an automatic, pretty much everyone I know learned to drive in a manual and owns one. Mainly big diesels or 3.0l cars are automatics.
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That's just my point, it's drastically different in North America.
People don't know, don't care and there's less and less opportunity for new drivers to learn. So when it comes to buying new car, choice is pretty simple. Manufacturers then look at that data and say "well, what can we do, nobody wants manual anymore, we might as well stop making them". Perhaps I'm oversimplifying things slightly, but you get the idea.
Plus all along we're talking about fantastic automatic transmissions in BMW/Audi and Mercedes cars (ZF is it??). There are others out there, that are not even close to these (and don't get me even started on CVT ones)
